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A Real Friend Is One Who Walks In When The Rest Of The World Walks Out

Walter Winchell

I wake up inside the helicopter, with Karin and Margarite kneeling over me.

"Alice!" Says Karin. "You're okay!"

"Margarite…" I say, "Tell me,"

"Tell you what?"

"Whatever it is you're hiding,"

"I – I,"

I sit up. "Margarite, I saw Yuri. He thinks you're hiding something. TELL ME WHAT IT IS!"

"I…" she begins, then she sees my expression. Her shoulders slump. "Okay…I'll tell you. But let's go and meet Naniwa first, okay?"

I look at her for a while.

"Why?"

"Alice, you said you trusted me,"

I study her.

"All right," I say finally. "We'll go and meet Naniwa Kawashima first,"